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The Cloud isn’t weightless.

Politics, whether at a national or a team level, has an impact on every project, especially major government ones, but if infighting and manoeuvring are polluting yours, remember: sunlight is the best disinfectant, writes Richard Young More than 30 years ago, Jeffrey Pinto, Professor of Management at The Pennsylvania State University, wrote a paper about the value of politics to project managers.

Sharon Davies led the implementation of the MOD project that won APM’s 2025 Transformation Project of the Year Award.

Project managers influence their teams’ culture more than you might think.

Over the past couple of decades, experience and research have revealed that, without an effective initiation, programmes fail to achieve their goals, often devolving into chaos, leading to budget and schedule overruns.

Clarity is fundamental to being a leader, believes Dave Corbin ChPP, Gleeds’ first ever Chief Project Delivery Officer.

Project Editor Emma De Vita goes backstage at the Royal Ballet and Opera in London to find out what it takes to run a programme of renewal projects that will return London’s prestigious cultural institution to the top of its technical game.

England hosted the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup last year.

Amy Leneker gives her hard-won advice on dealing with too much stress the right way By the time stress and burnout took over my life, I couldn’t remember a time when I wasn’t stressed – when there wasn’t a deadline looming, a problem to solve or a decision that couldn’t wait.

Andreas Bang Leed gives five top tips for getting measurement right and avoiding the traps that derail most projects According to Oxford Global Projects’ database of more than 20,000 projects, only 0.